When renowned film director Péter Gárdos wrote the story, he intended it as a film script, but eventually he made it into a novel. “Fever at Dawn,” the love story of two Holocaust survivors―the author’s parents―has ever since sold in more than 20 territories.

Krisztina Tóth, who has been mainly known as an outstanding poet for more than
two decades, has recently published her third book of prose, a
collection of thirty short stories, each of them bearing the title of a body part.

"Lot has long been a hero of mine. A morally charged hero, which is why he has such a difficult fate—a true person." – Imre Kertész talks to János Kőbányai about Hungarian literature and his forthcoming book.

One of the Hungarian literary sensations of the last decade, Jadviga's Pillow (1997) was an oddity in Hungary, being both a critical and a public success. The novel, portraying life in a Slovak village in Hungary between the two world wars, was recently published in German under the title Das Kissen der Jadviga.

The Budapest Bardroom defines itself as an ‘English-language show in Budapest, featuring poetry, music and spoken word by local and visiting performers’. This fall’s Bardroom session was themed around the date: an inconspicuous October 16th, being Sunday, but that turned out to be irrelevant. English-reading Budapest, alive and kicking.